El Vigía climate

Name: El Vigía
Address: VE

El Vigía is warmest in September, with average highs of 29 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 20 °C. May is the wettest month (613 mm) and January the driest (216 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year El Vigía averages 4,813 mm of rain and 350 days above 25 °C.

Venezuela · population 162,289 · 1991–2020 normals

Temperature below 0 °C to above 30 °C Rain band height is that month’s share of the wettest month

Warmest month September 29 °C
Coldest month January 20 °C
Driest month January 216 mm
Wettest month May 613 mm
Least cloud January 68 % cloud
Hottest on record September 37 °C
Coldest on record January 16 °C

What to expectEl Vigía through the year

El Vigía changes little through the year. Average daily highs stay between 27 and 29 °C, so no month stands out as a season in the way it would further from the equator.

Counted across a normal year, 350 days a year reach 25 °C, 46 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 37 °C, in September.

Rain is strongly seasonal. May averages 613 mm against 216 mm in January — 2.8 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	27.0 °C	216 mm	68 %
February	27.4 °C	252 mm	70 %
March	27.8 °C	353 mm	78 %
April	27.9 °C	532 mm	91 %
May	28.4 °C	613 mm	94 %
June	28.5 °C	512 mm	92 %
July	28.6 °C	475 mm	91 %
August	29.4 °C	412 mm	89 %
September	29.5 °C	374 mm	90 %
October	28.6 °C	398 mm	91 %
November	27.5 °C	358 mm	87 %
December	27.0 °C	319 mm	76 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	27.0 °C	20.5 °C	23.7 °C	33.2 °C	16.2 °C	27	2
February	27.4 °C	20.9 °C	24.1 °C	34.4 °C	16.7 °C	25	3
March	27.8 °C	21.5 °C	24.6 °C	34.6 °C	17.5 °C	29	4
April	27.9 °C	21.9 °C	24.9 °C	34.0 °C	18.7 °C	29	3
May	28.4 °C	22.0 °C	25.3 °C	36.8 °C	19.1 °C	31	3
June	28.5 °C	21.7 °C	25.3 °C	33.6 °C	18.5 °C	30	3
July	28.6 °C	21.4 °C	25.2 °C	34.1 °C	18.7 °C	31	4
August	29.4 °C	21.7 °C	25.7 °C	37.1 °C	18.8 °C	31	9
September	29.5 °C	21.7 °C	25.7 °C	37.3 °C	18.9 °C	30	9
October	28.6 °C	21.6 °C	25.1 °C	34.7 °C	19.0 °C	31	4
November	27.5 °C	21.4 °C	24.4 °C	31.7 °C	18.0 °C	29	1
December	27.0 °C	20.7 °C	23.9 °C	32.8 °C	16.8 °C	28	1

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	216 mm	25	12 h/day	68 %	86 %	6.5 km/h
February	252 mm	23	12 h/day	70 %	85 %	6.5 km/h
March	353 mm	27	12 h/day	78 %	85 %	6.5 km/h
April	532 mm	28	12 h/day	91 %	87 %	6.0 km/h
May	613 mm	29	13 h/day	94 %	87 %	5.7 km/h
June	512 mm	28	13 h/day	92 %	86 %	5.7 km/h
July	475 mm	28	13 h/day	91 %	84 %	5.7 km/h
August	412 mm	28	12 h/day	89 %	83 %	6.1 km/h
September	374 mm	27	12 h/day	90 %	83 %	6.0 km/h
October	398 mm	29	12 h/day	91 %	85 %	6.1 km/h
November	358 mm	27	12 h/day	87 %	88 %	6.1 km/h
December	319 mm	27	12 h/day	76 %	87 %	6.3 km/h

How El Vigía compares

The same four figures for nearby destinations, so the numbers above have something to be read against. Summer high is the warmest month's average high; winter low is the coldest month's average low.

Destination	Summer high	Winter low	Rain per year	Days above 25 °C
El Vigía	29 °C	20 °C	4,813 mm	350
Mérida · Venezuela	24 °C	15 °C	1,997 mm	51
San Cristóbal · Venezuela	28 °C	18 °C	1,031 mm	298
Cúcuta · Colombia	32 °C	20 °C	1,177 mm	355
Valera · Venezuela	28 °C	18 °C	2,982 mm	341
Barinas · Venezuela	32 °C	21 °C	3,198 mm	363

Planning a trip? See the best time to visit El Vigía.

QuestionsCommon questions about El Vigía’s climate

When is the best time to visit El Vigía?

That depends on what you want, so the honest answer is a comparison rather than a single month. January, February, December sit closest to 20 °C on average, September is the warmest month and January the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does El Vigía get?

In September, the warmest month, daily highs average 29 °C. About 46 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 37 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 20 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in El Vigía?

May, averaging 613 mm over 29 days with rain. The driest month is January with 216 mm. The year as a whole averages 4,813 mm.

Are these figures a forecast?

No. They are 1991–2020 climate normals: the average of thirty years, which describes what a month is usually like in El Vigía rather than what any particular week will bring. Individual years can differ substantially from the normal.

Data sources and method

ERA5 / ERA5-Land reanalysis — Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), ECMWF. Copernicus Licence
Open-Meteo — Open-Meteo.com. CC BY 4.0
NOAA OISST v2.1 — NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Public domain
GeoNames — GeoNames.org. CC BY 4.0

Normal period: 1991–2020
Dataset version: era5-1991-2020-scores1.1
Last processed: 1 August 2026

Measured values come from ERA5 reanalysis and are reproduced unchanged. Calculated by us: monthly rankings, daylight hours, beach and comfort scores. Full formulas are on the methodology page.

Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.